Where Islam spreads, freedom dies

According to
estimations made last Tuesday by Hans-Georg Maaßen, the president of the Office
for the Protection of the Constitution, some 100 Syrian fighters have already
returned to Germany, and approximately a dozen among them must have concrete
experience in war. According to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, more than 200 fighters with German
nationality are still present in the civil war area. Some 25 fighters are
probably dead.

Hans-Georg Maaßen
warned about the terrorist danger posed by those veterans. He pointed to the
attack in Brussels, during which four people were shot dead at a Jewish museum.
The presumed perpetrator was the French national Mehdi Nemmouche. The
29-years-old man had allegedly taken part in the Syrian civil war for over a
year. This would be the first attack of an individual having returned from
Syria to Europe.

Although the Office has
no evidences of a „concrete terrorist mission” in Germany, “a considerable
danger” is still posed by the militant returners, Maaßen warned. “The timely
recognition of the returners and the application of proper measures make the
security forces face a great challenge”, he admitted. It is precisely to
Germany that it is quite simple to travel through the Turkish border to Syria.

A working team shall
now find out how to deal with this challenge in the states belonging to the G7
group. There are talks about measures to make more difficult for suspected individuals
to travel to Syria, or to be able to identify them more easily as Syrian
fighters. The flow of information shall be strengthened so that individual estates
can better inform each other about potentially dangerous returners.